2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
5/20/2019 | 11:15 AM - 11:30 AM | HOW DO WE RESPOND TO ECOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS: RESIST, ACCEPT, OR DIRECT? | 150 DEF
HOW DO WE RESPOND TO ECOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS: RESIST, ACCEPT, OR DIRECT?
Ecological transformation, the reorganization of an ecosystem from one state into another, has always occurred but in the age of the Anthropocene, transformations are occurring at an unprecedented scale and rate. Traditional conservation-oriented management approaches seek to resist these changes, attempting to maintain ecosystems within a historical range of variability or restore them back to a pre-defined natural state. However, given the directional force of climate change, resistance will become increasingly difficult, expensive, and under many circumstances, impossible. We now need to intentionally consider and identify those situations where we can realistically resist change, where we must accept change, or in some cases even direct ecosystems to a desirable future state. Land management agencies currently lack guidance on managing across the resist, accept, direct (RAD) continuum, especially when we move into the realm of directing change. In this presentation we will introduce the RAD management framework intended to address this challenge, and using cases studies illustrate some of the key considerations we will face when managing systems experiencing ecological transformation. This work represents the efforts of two active working groups tackling this issue.
- Conservation
- Management
- Restoration
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David Lawrence
(), National Park Service, Climate Change Response Program, david_james_lawrence@nps.gov;
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